Radial symmetry and regularity of solutions for poly-harmonic Dirichlet problems

AbstractLet B=B1(0) be the unit ball in Rn and r=|x|. We study the poly-harmonic Dirichlet problem{(−Δ)mu=f(u)in B,u=∂u∂r=⋯=∂m−1u∂rm−1=0on ∂B.Using the corresponding integral equation and the method of moving planes in integral forms, we show that the positive solutions are radially symmetric and monotone decreasing about the origin. We also obtain regularity for solutions